Hiroka Matsumoto

Brief history

Hiroka lived at Aoba-ku, Yokohama City from her age of three. She began to learn the violin from the age of four, and made her debut at Philia Hall three months later. She was observed as "has a very huge potential and a great talent, and will grow to an unique musical personality in future." by Zakhar Bron at seven years old. At the age of nine, she gave her first recital in Budapest, Hungary. At the age of 13 in 2008, she played and conducted the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra for "The Four Seasons" of Vivaldi.

At The National Art Center, Tokyo in 2009, she played the smaller violin, which was used by Mozart in childhood. This had caught attention as the first concert using the small violin, made in 1746, outside Austria.

In Japan, Hiroka studied under Koichiro Harada, a professor of Toho Gakuen School of Music, and Gérard Poulet. She was given a scholarship by the Toho Gakuen School of Music Soloist Diploma course. Hiroka studied under professor Boris Kuschnir and others at Konservatorium Wien and University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna.

In 2009-2011 Hiroka got a scholarship of Yamaha Music Foundation. In 2012-2013, she also got a music scholarship of The Meiji Yasuda Cultural Foundation. She has been studying in Vienna for three years from the Fall 2014 as a trainee of up-and-coming artists overseas study program of the Agency for Cultural Affairs (Japan).

Awards

Recitals

Hiroka opened the following recitals in Japan.

Concerts

In Japan

Outside Japan

TV